and from I have read you have to upload wave files to the Motorola radio? to 
many radios, not enough time to play with them all! <grin>
73 from IC.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: DMR radio


> Hi Ray,
> The Motorola XPR5550 has speech. The down side is that the radio is fairly
> expensive, and the software costs quite a bit also.
>
> I'm doing ok with my Tyt MD380, which I got for around $170. The software 
> is
> reasonably accessible and its free.
> Cheers,
> Barry.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Ray T. Mahorney
> Sent: Monday, 26 October 2015 9:40 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: DMR radio
>
> which radio is that which has the speech function?
>
>
> Ray T. Mahorney
> WA4WGA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Martin McCormick
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 21:06
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: DMR radio
>
> I am still hoping a DMR-capable radio comes out with programming
> software that works under Linux or Mac.
>
> Even if it is free under Windows, Windows isn't free. At least NVBA
> is gradually becoming an alternative Windows screen reader but if you want
> best results, get out the money shovel and hope your end result was worth
> the expense when you finally start trying to use it.
>
> In all fairness, MACOSX is not free either, but the screen reader is
> part of the OS and is upgraded along with it so you don't spend any more
> than a sighted Mac user doing the same things.
>
> Iaen Cordell <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>> i cant find anything on a cor5550
>> but i did find this, motorola have a radio called xpr5550,C is one
>> character to the right of X,O is one character to the left of P ?
>> could it be a typo ?
>> there are cheaper dmr radio as it says in this thread but as
>> previously disacussed from other forums they are cheap quality.
>> the xpr5550 is a sexy mobile radio,and there is a portable equivalent
>> DGP5550
>> i did confirm the speech feature you need "Voice Announcement for
>> Channel Plays zone and channel announcement voice messages for the
>> current channel."
>> this function is assignable to a button of your choice.
>> the DMR MArk network is a worldwide DMR network for hams,it'll
>> probably be waffling hf hams on uhf digital.
>> I have registered on this network but never got arond to using it.
>> according to acma this is the DMR repeater for sydney
>> 439.500 434.500 VK2RCG Sydney
>> hope that helps
>> cheers
>
>
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